CD cleaning
Paul Homchick
> Has any one used the Nity Gritty CD cleaner?
This probably isn't the best thing you can do for the economy, but
save your money. Common items found in the average first-world
kitchen (or bathroom) should be sufficient for any cleaning job.
There aren't any micro-grooves on a CD. LPs are (were?) a terrible
pain to keep clean, so none of us should trash our Nitty-Gritty
record-cleaning machines. However, one of the incontrovertible
advantages of the CD (regardless of how you might think it sounds) is
that it is a lot easier to keep clean, and it take really gross
amounts of dirt to affect the playback at all.
If your CD somehow becomes so munged up that you feel you have to wash
it, take it over to the kitchen sink and sqirt a few drops of liquid
dishwashing detergent on it. Add some water from the tap, and
*gently* rub with your fingers in the direction of the radius (don't
go in the direction of the "grooves"). Finish up by rinsing under the
tap, and then _daub_ off any moisture with a clean lint-free rag. If
you have scratched the CD so that it mistracks, substitute toothpaste
for the liquid detergent, and limit your treatment to the scratched
area. (I use Pearldrops). I have scratched two or three CDs so that
they wouldn't play on my portable CD player (though the fixed players
weren't affected), but the toothpaste treatment has fixed them all.
Save your money and buy a few more CDs.
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